page_title: 2019 in India
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 in India / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: This shot was taken during the Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsab or Bengali Literary Festival at the Oxford Bookstore, 15 Park Street, Kolkata. The eight hours long one day festival was organaised by the Oxford Bookstore and the Patra Bharati - a publishing company. About two hundred literature lovers with eminent personalities were present at the public event. Wikipedia Kolkata community and local bloggers were also supported the programme.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2019 in India.
context_section_description: January 2
  Ramakant Achrekar, Indian cricket coach (b. 1931)
  Samuel Rayan, Indian theologian (b. 1920)
  January 3
  Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari, Indian judge and independence activist (b. 1927)
  Dibyendu Palit, Indian writer (b. 1939)
  Pinaki Thakur, Indian poet (b. 1959)
  January 8 – Jayantilal Bhanusali, Indian politician (b. 1964)
  January 9 – Mahendra Mewati, Indian actor (b. 1969)
  January 11
  Kishore Pradhan, Indian actor (b. 1932)
  Meera Sanyal, Indian banker (b. 1961)
  Charles Soreng, Indian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1934)
  January 14
  Shivajirao Deshmukh, Indian politician (b. 1934)
  Lenin Rajendran, Indian film director (b. 1951)
  Devendra Swarup, Indian journalist (b. 1925)
  January 15 - Biraj Kumar Sarma, Indian politician (b. 1948)
  January 16 - Vishnu Hari Dalmia, Indian industrialist, (b. 1924)
  January 17 - S. Balakrishnan, Indian film score composer and music director (b. 1949)
  January 19
  Jagjit Singh Chopra, Indian neurologist (b. 1934)
  Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, Indian politician (b. 1955)
  January 21
  Raghbir Singh Bhola, Indian field hockey player (b. 1927)
  Shivakumara Swami, Indian Lingayat spiritual leader and educationist (b. 1907)
  January 23 – Sitaram Rao Valluri, Indian-born American engineer (b. 1924)
  January 25 – Krishna Sobti, Indian author (b. 1925)
  January 29 – George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)
  January 30 – Dara Dotiwalla, Indian cricket umpire (b. 1933)
caption: Pinaki Thakur
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